Maiduguri — Some of the women who lost their loved ones in last week’s sectarian crisis in Maiduguri are bemoaning their fate and have appealed for government assistance. The Boko Haram Muslim sect, led by 39-year-old Mohammed Yusuf, had last Monday launched  a violent attack on the people of the state in what it called […]

Dr. Asogun, a Consultant Surgeon and Head of Department of Surgery, Central Hospital, Benin City, and Medical Director of Asogun Specialist Clinic, Benin, was abducted by unknown gunmen while attending to a patient in his clinic.
Family sources told newsmen on the telephone that the kidnappers allowed them to speak with the doctor for a few minutes before the ransom demand was made.

The senator disclosed this while laying the foundation stone for the building of a library and computer centre estimated at about N35 million in Calabar, Cross River State .

Acting Managing Director of the Commission, Mr. Power Aginighan, who made the appeal yesterday in Port Harcourt during the commissioning of a health centre built and furnished by the Commission for Tereama community, Port Harcourt, said militants should see the amnesty offer as an opportunity to be properly reintegrated into society, so they could also be active players in the drive to develop the region.

It read: “That the relocation of the Petroleum University from Delta to Kaduna State is unacceptable by Niger-Delta students, as it is against the 7-point agenda and no excuse is genuine enough for the relocation, therefore, it should be returned without any further delay.